{"id":66216,"date":"2019-09-10T16:57:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=66216"},"modified":"2019-09-10T17:11:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T17:11:09","slug":"eve-of-destruction-eighteen-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=66216","title":{"rendered":"Eve of Destruction, eighteen years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>A quick reminder.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the title of Barry McGuire&#8217;s song, not it&#8217;s Vietnam era, nuke, and Jordan River contents, that concerns us here, reminding us that eighteen years ago to the day was the <strong>Eve of Destruction<\/strong> of the <strong>Twin Towers<\/strong> in NYC &#8212; an infant born eighteen years ago tomorrow would tomorrow be eligible for military service without seeking parental consent.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Richard-Drew-Falling-Man-WTC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"319\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Richard-Drew-Falling-Man-WTC.jpg 603w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Richard-Drew-Falling-Man-WTC-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><em><strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>What a choice: to jump to one&#8217;s death, or burn alive in a kamikaze&#8217;d building. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/em>**<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qfZVu0alU0I\"><strong>McGuire<\/strong>&#8216;s song<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Usama bin Laden<\/strong> is long gone, and <strong>Khalid Sheikh Mohammed<\/strong> will be tried, if he still lives, in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>We remember the fallen, and honor our first responders and all who serve and save.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron ] . A quick reminder. It&#8217;s the title of Barry McGuire&#8217;s song, not it&#8217;s Vietnam era, nuke, and Jordan River contents, that concerns us here, reminding us that eighteen years ago to the day was the Eve of Destruction of the Twin Towers in NYC &#8212; an infant born eighteen years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,459,575,526,1971,1062,1808,208,784,480],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-461","category-bin-laden","category-character","category-charles-cameron","category-first-responders","category-honor","category-kamikaze","category-khalid-sheikh-mohammed","category-memory","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66216"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66225,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66216\/revisions\/66225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}